On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students of the Lynch School, I invite you to join our community of scholar-practitioners.
We offer challenges and opportunities that will prepare you for a life of inquiry and professional accomplishment - a career of scholarship and practice that will enhance the learning and life chances of children, youth, and families.
Founded in 1952, the Lynch School has earned an outstanding reputation through the work of students and faculty who, individually and collectively, ask, "How can scholarship and knowledge be applied to problems of consequence?"
We are a community of scholars committed to a model of education that serves the goals of social justice.
Our graduates carry this commitment into their professional lives - as teachers, counselors, psychologists, school and university administrators, and educational evaluators, policy makers, and researchers.
Our commitment is informed by a sense of the practical and the possible. Our understanding of social problems such as discrimination, poverty, violence, ignorance and social inequity, and their impact in our communities, is based on experience working in and with the community.
This work is done in a dynamic environment of collaboration - faculty and graduate students collaborate with teachers, undergraduate students, counselors, parents and administrators; with schools and human service providers; and with professionals in various fields.
Our collaborative work changes the way we practice, leads to new learning in our various specialties within education and psychology, and informs state and national policy.
As a community, we will accompany you as you learn to translate theory into practice, struggle with the challenges of your profession, and find your unique way to contribute to the knowledge base of your field.
The gap between social inequity and social justice is wide; the boundaries that must be crossed, complex.
If you are prepared to cross those boundaries and strive to improve the human condition through education, join us.
- Dean Joseph O'Keefe, S.J.
